Through Myra's Eyes

Sunday, February 22, 2015

A letter to..Lovely Handwritten Notes

I found this blog called: Lovely Handwritten  Notes on tumblr.
So I thought why not write to this person who lives in the snow of D.C. 
Since I have a P.O.Box its safe.
Remember I'm trying to do 52 new things in this year so this is stepping out of the box and handwritting a letter to a stranger.
I decided to use that easy stamp that makes a pretty card and gets my craft on.
I added the hearts well, to tell you the truth, its covering up a mistake of some bad flowers.  But, I think it looks good.  It's still the month of Feb. its heart month.
The blue bird gives it the out doors look...hahaha.

I also found another man who is writing a letter a day for the whole year.  I'm going to send him a card too.
I know I should just write to my own friends!

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Feb.2015 Photo-A-Day..let me show you what I have done!

Feb.1: On my plate
This is what I had to eat while I watched the 
Super Bowl Game. 
Feb.2:Mail
This is my ugly mail box with mail that needs to go back to sender.
Feb.3:Water
This is in front of the cemetery where some of my friends call home. 
Feb.4:Reward
This is my locker at work and my bestest buddy came back to leave some of us notes and I got mine right on my locker.  I was so excited! 
Feb.5:something blue
Some of my favorite things. Yes, that is my cell phone.
Feb.7:Stripes
I would love to stay at this amazing hotel.

Feb.8:In my bag
Remember when I found this at the county fair. 
Feb.9:Energy.
It takes alot of energy to walk 3 miles a day but, I am doing it! 
Feb.10:This inspires me
These are my favorite craft tool. You can see I have used them for ever! 
Feb.11: On the wall
can't go wrong with some great art. 
Feb.12:Pointy
I love this picture.
I started with one of my plants and then found these. 
Feb.13:Temptation
Girl Scout cookies, these only come out once a year and how can you say no? 
Feb.14:Love
This was fun to make.
But I think I put up the three bottles of Coke with my kids names on them.
Oh well. 
Feb.15:Spot
My parking spot, not my favorite spot but, its all mine. 
Feb.16:From where I stand
A girl can never have enough Almay.
I always have fun making my eyes look amazing! 
Feb.17:Routine
Every day I text my daughter "Good Morning" with a little fun or haha along with it.
You can also see I read Oprah too.










I had fun looking for these photo's, I'm getting better at finding things with every week that passes.
It's going to be Thursday, a week goes fast with Monday being a holiday and taking off Tuesday because it was needed!
Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Letter writing...a lost art

I found a guy named Reed Sandridge who is writing a letter everyday.
I know how did I find him??
WEll, I was looking on blogs to find how to write a good letter and stumbled across this one blog that he had left a comment and so I wrote him a letter.
I know I'm strange but, that is who I am.
That's a lot of stamps and thinking about what to write.
I hope he gets it done. I work so many hours that it is not something I could do right now.
When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone?
  You can always write to me
       Myra H
       P.O. Box 3471
       Cerritos, CA 90703
I had a great day off, I did what I wanted to do..nothing.
SO I'm off to sleep to start another long week..well not so long!!

Saturday, February 14, 2015

These are my next Photo-A-Day that I need to do..wanna try too?

These look hard this week!
This is what I try to do every day..some days are easier then others!..can you see why??

Happy Valentines Day 2015

Happy Valentines Day!
I made this from a thin metal tin, you can use chalk to write on it.  But, sine I put this out on my friends grave I used white nail polish.

I have the best daughter ever. She went outside after I went to bed to pick these from my only rose bush.
When I woke up I could smell roses and found them on the kitchen table..so excited.

Got a little crafty here.
I found these..lets call them french fry boxes..at Michael's.  I bought "happy valentine " ribbon and some heart spongy stickers and put these together, then put in some candy.
I think my kids were only excited about finding out what kind of candy they got.  It really holds alot of candy. 
My kitchen table.
I also bought them some fun gifts.
I got Princess P a Bose speaker that is that cool teal color, Danger D got wheels for his long board and Special K got a controler for his playstation. They were all excited.  
Somehow I always make Valentine gifts better then xmas.
On the left you can see the metal heart container, I'm going to put a light in it when it gets dark and light up my table.



I have today off, only because I wanted yesterday off and like always didn't get it off. So I had to beg for today off and Wow..got it!
It's a really pretty day here, I'm going to go take a walk, day 14 for this exercise program..shhh don't tell anyone but it looks like I have 7 pounds off so far...yeah!
I also have Monday off for Presidents Day. I hope to get some crafting done along with some reading.  I've been listen to a "playaway" and it stopped working so, now I want to know what happen at the end of the story, got the book from the library.
I have a friend who is doing a Wrecked Journal..I'm going to look for one of those, it looks like fun.  Maybe Princess P will do a few pages with me.
I have been doing pretty good with my Photo-A-Day, I just need to put them up here so you can see them too.  On the group that I join on FB there is a host that picks top 5 pictures of the day and I want to be one of them so bad.  So I try so hard to get a good shot that isn't blurry..lol
Lets see if I can get things done.
Have a great Valentine's Day.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Zucchini Bread..not bad

 My first try at "Zucchini Bread".
I don't have a very good way of putting my cook book together so a little note book is how it goes.

I have never grated a zucchini, it wasn't to hard.
2 cups  
one cup of chopped walnuts. 
3 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
3 tsp. cinnamon
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 1/4 cup white sugar
3 tsp. vanilla

I missed the other bowl.
1st. bowl: Swift flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon.
2nd bowl: beat eggs, oil, vanilla and sugar 
then
add 1st bowl to 2nd bowl, then stir in zucchini and walnuts.
 Two 8 X 4 pans...I used what I had, they weren't this size.
grease the  pans and add some flour
Heat oven to 325 
Evenly add batter to pans.
My very used and not clean oven.
I put these on my cookies sheet so the bottom wouldn't burn.
BAKE 40-60 min's.

Look how beautiful they turned out!
So proud of myself.
It's really good, even my kids liked it.
I love this plate, I've had the whole set since I started my hope chest in 1981..I used them for awhile then, put them away because you can't put them in the microwave and thats all I needed was my kids to see these dishes spark!

For more like this go to..Allrecipes(dot) com

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Week 6th for Photo-A-Day 2015

I found this great Photo-A-Day list...now you can see what I am trying to do.
I did awful last month, but hopefully, even with lots of hours at work I will be able to do better this month.
Today Feb. 1st. is "On my plate", since its Super Bowl Sunday I have a foot ball plate with a grilled cheese sandwich and Black berries.  Somehow this computer doesn't want me to put it on my blog so when I get some help I will add it here.
I also did some baking today that I would love to share!
Have a great Sunday!